BRIDGEWATER, N.S. — A 16-year-old boy said he was promised a painting job by David James Leblanc. Instead, the 48-year-old child sex offender drove the boy to a remote Nova Scotia shack, chained him in a room and repeatedly raped him — with his partner — for 10 days.

Leblanc pleaded guilty Thursday morning to most of the charges, including kidnapping, forcible confinement and sexual assault.

He also pleaded guilty to charges in an earlier case involving sexual assault of two young boys.

During an earlier preliminary hearing, testimony that can now be reported, the teen detailed for court his horrific ordeal.

After Leblanc conned him into getting into his van in Halifax, promising him cash for a painting job, the boy said he was driven to a cabin in Upper Chelsea, a rural area about 90 minutes outside the city, where he met Leblanc's partner, Wayne Alan Cunningham.

The boy said things quickly got weird.

After Leblanc gave him alcohol and offered him money to see his penis, the boy said he was marched into a bedroom, chained to the floor and sexually assaulted.

Over the next 10 days the teen said he was sometimes chained standing with his arms above his head, and other times locked to the bed while Cunningham and Leblanc took turns raping him.

At one point a third man entered the room, who the teen was led to believe he had been sold to, and forced oral sex on him.

The teen said he heard Leblanc and Cunningham discuss selling him or killing him "out in the middle of nowhere."

Eventually, the teen told court, he managed to unscrew the eye ring holding one of his wrists when the cabin was empty. Wearing only a hoodie he ran barefoot to find help.

After a national manhunt, Cunningham's body was found outside of Thunder Bay, Ont. Leblanc was arrested nearby.

The boy's mother was at the Bridgewater courthouse Thursday, her first time being in the same room with Leblanc, she said.

"I just wanted him to suffer," she said outside court. "Normally I am not like that, but it was overwhelming."

"I hope that he is in there for a really long time and I hope those inmates in that place get to him," she said, her hands shaking.

Sentencing is set for June 14. The Crown has indicated it will be seeking up to 12 years in prison.